Hooked on junk

Do you find certain foods impossible to resist? New York Times reporter and author of "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us", Michael Moss, is in The Stream to expose the secrets behind addictive food. Based on interviews with industry executives and leading scientists, Moss explains how the trillion-dollar processed food industry employs science to make irresistible products. So what can you do to fight back?

In this episode of The Stream, we speak to:

Michael Moss @saltsugfat
Pulitzer Prize Winning Investigative Journalist, The New York Times

Dr Robert Lustig has conducted extensive research on the harmful effects of sugar. In this video, he explains the causes of obesity.

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Jeffrey Dunn, the former president of Coca-Cola North America and Latin America, left the company in 2009 after having a change of heart. He became the C.E.O. of Bolthouse Farms and used the marketing and business skills he acquired in Coca-Cola to promote healthy foods, like baby carrots.

Baby Carrots | Eat 'Em Like Junk Food | Extremebunchofcarrotfarmers

For more on fast food and obesity in America, check out this episode of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines: